Vehicles chosen by many food and package deliverers, Electric scooters and bicycles are more dangerous than you think.especially for lack of quality control and robustness of the battery construction. What appears to be an electric scooter has begun in China. burning meters before reaching an intersection and the driver only had time to throw himself to the groundHowever, he could not prevent the fire from spreading to the clothes he was wearing. The incident was filmed by dash camera of one of the vehicles waiting for the green light on one of the arteries of Shenzhen, the sixth most populated city in China with a population that, in 2020, exceeded 17 million inhabitants.
Whether because they are cheap and manufactured by Chinese companies of dubious quality and technology, these small electric vehicles – many of them sold in Portugal – sometimes turn out to be very dangerous, even due to the type of battery they use and the security systems that they do not have.. There are several known cases in which fires caused by the batteries of scooters, bicycles and electric scooters consumed vehicles, but also homes where they were stored or recharged.
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To demonstrate that this type of vehicle can put the person who uses it at risk, the vehicle itself, but also the homes, garages and businesses of its owners, it is enough to remember what has happened in New York, where there are also many people dedicated to delivery of food ordered from applications who saw their vehicles burn to the ground and the fire spread to the house. According to the New York Times, only in the first six months of 2023 there were 100 fires in the North American city and if we count the number of deaths caused by this type of fire, the total rises to 27 since 2021, the year in which the city authorized the sale of this type of vehicles.
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By trying to regulate the quality of electric bicycles and scooters, city officials have been forcing a kind of battery certification and chargers to use, which meant a reduction in accidents and the consequent decrease in the number of deaths and homes destroyed by flames caused by small and poor quality batteries.
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Source: Observadora
